Enterprise & partnerships

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Synopsis

This unit examines how to advance contemporary occupational therapy practice through innovation, change, and leadership within evolving health and social care environments. Key topics include client-directed care/consumer-directed care, innovation, leadership and entrepreneurship, responding to complexity, managing change, product and service development, and on-going development of a professional identity.

Guest speakers will present on and examine topics such as identifying and developing new product and/or service opportunities, ethical practice, and funding systems and models. Students will consider application of this knowledge to their own areas of future practice.

Hurdle: Attendance at 80% of unit tutorials, practical skills sessions and seminars is required to pass this unit

Workload requirements

12 hours of study per week consisting of 2 hours of lectures and 2 hours of seminar / tutorial sessions on campus plus an additional 8 hours of self-directed study will be required to complete learning tasks, undertake research and to complete assessment tasks.